The online Job Search market is filled with Job Search Engines to help individuals find the employment of their choice or, even better, to post their resumes online and help recruiters find them. The latter approach is the preferred choice for many as it is simply too difficult to apply for every single opportunity posted online, and the usual conversion rate (ratio of applied jobs to interview calls received) is quite low. On the other hand, professional recruiters are extremely capable and are able to match applicants to available job openings quite quickly. At the same time, specialized job seekers need access to the best job search engines for their discipline, and the hit rate (same as conversion rate), is significantly higher in these specialized engines.

The fundamental question of finding the best job search engines can be broadly divided thus into two categories:

1. Generalized Job Search Engines and
2. Specialized Job Search Engines

Best Generalized Job Search Engines

The most commonly used job search engines are

1. CareerBuilder.com: Provides a commentary of articles to help the job seeker in addition to capabilities to build & post resume, search for jobs by region, discipline and more. The site is used heavily by job seekers, employers and recruiters. The site also gives job recommendations based on your resume and preferences, and carries strong statistics regarding who has viewed your resume and how many times it has been downloaded and so forth. It will additionally send you Job Alerts based on your preferences as well. Other features include salary calculators and career fairs, all of which can be used to your advantage. CareerBuilder.com began a little later than other job search sites, but has become one of the premiere general purpose Job Search Engines on the Internet. No job search effort is complete without registering or combing through CareerBuilder.com
2. Monster.com: The original big job search site. Monster.com was early to the game, and quickly established itself as the largest job search site on the Internet, and continues to be one of the top two job search engines. It offers many of the same features highlighted for CareerBuilder.com, including resume building, job alerts and so forth. It also provides access to professionals who can help you with resume writing and other services. Monster.com is another site on which resume should be posted to allow many professional recruiters to find you.
3. Juju.com: Rebranded from the original job-search-engine.com, juju.com has a simple user interface to search for all posted jobs on the site. Not as heavily trafficked as the above two sites, it nevertheless offers another good forum to look for opportunities in your area.

Best Specialized Job Search Engines

Specialized job search engines are as varied as the types of specializations available, and thus it is difficult to list them all. However, it is worth highlighting a select few job search engines for certain disciplines that are helping that field significantly:

For physicians, there are two job search engines of interest:

1. Healthcarematch.com: Claims to be the only job search engine to match physicians with lines of practice and direct job hiring entities. Provides users with the basic services of resume posting and job search facilities. Account creation is by telephone contact, which helps screening the right applicants.
2. Mdjobfind.com: This is a job search engine with a focus on New England area, and most of the postings are from that part of the US. Specific focus is on Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.

For IT professionals, along with CareerBuilder.com and Monster.com, it is worth looking at:

1. Dice.com: Job search engine dedicated to IT professionals with software and hardware jobs. There are a few jobs listed here that may not already be covered by CareerBuilder.com and Monster.com and thus is worth the while of an IT professional to have their resume posted here as well.
2. Hotjobs.com: From Yahoo!, hotjobs.com is meant to be as diverse as CareerBuilder.com and Monster.com, but IT jobs do tend to be more frequently posted and applied for at this site as well.

Online sites are most suited for IT professionals as their jobs naturally put them in touch with the Internet and its resources on a regular basis - thus allowing recruiters and employment seekers to get in touch with each other easily and naturally.

In other articles at this site, we will continue talking about other specialized search engines, and also how best to use these engines for finding your job quickly and efficiently.